Shelley's Poetry and Prose


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Preface
Acknowledgments
Textual Introduction
Outline of Shelley's Life

The Poems
  From The Esdaile Notebook
  Zeinab and Kathema
  The Retrospect
  Sonnet: To a balloon, laden with Knowledge
  To the Emperors of Russia and Austria
  Queen Mab
  Alastor
  Stanzas.—April, 1814
  Mutability ("We are as clouds")
  To Wordsworth
  Mont Blanc
  Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  From Laon and Cynthia (later The Revolt of Islam)
    Dedication
    Canto IX, stanzas 20-28
  To Constantia
  Ozymandias
  Lines written among the Euganean Hills
  Julian and Maddalo
  Stanzas written in Dejection—December 1818, Near Naples
  The Two Spirits—An Allegory
  Prometheus
  The Sensitive Plant
  Ode to Heaven
  Ode to the West Wind
  The Cloud
  To a Sky-Lark
  Ode to Liberty
  The Cenci
  The Mask of Anarchy
  Sonnet: England in 1819
  Sonnet: To the Republic of Benevento
  Sonnet ("Lift not the painted veil")
  Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave")
  Letter to Maria Gisborne
  Peter Bell the Third
  The Witch of Atlas
  Song of Apollo
  Song of Pan
  The Indian Girl's Song
  Song ("Rarely, rarely comest thou")
  Epipsychidion
  Adonais
  Hellas
  Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
  The Flower That Smiles Today
  When Passion's Trance Is Overpast
  To —--—- ("Music, when soft voices die")
  Memory
  To Jane. The Invitation
  To Jane. The Recollection
  One Word Is Too Often Profaned
  The Serpent Is Shut Out from Paradise
  With a Guitar. To Jane.
  To Jane ("The keen stars were twinkling")
  Lines written in the Bay of Lerici
  The Triumph of Life

The Prose
  On Love
  On Life
  A Defence of Poetry

Criticism
  General Studies
    Kenneth Neill Cameron · The Social Philosophy of Shelley
    C. E. Pulos · [The Role of Scepticism in Shelley's Thought]
    Earl R. Wasserman · [Shelley's use of Myth]
    Donald H. Reiman · The Purpose and method of Shelley's
      Poetry
  Studies of Individual Works
    Evan K. Gibson · Alastor: A Reinterpretation
    Charles H. Vivian · The One "Mont Blanc"
    Donald H. Reiman · Structure, Symbol, and Theme in "Lines
      written among the Euganean Hills"
    M. H. Abrams · [Shelley's Prometheus Unbound]
    D. J. Hughes · Potentiality in Prometheus Unbound
    Irene H. Chayes · ["Ode to the West Wind"]
    Carlos Baker · [The Cenci]
    Kenneth Neill Cameron · The Planet-Tempest Passage in
      Epipsychidion
    Ross Woodman · Adonais
    Carl Woodring · [Hellas]
    G. M. Matthews · Shelley's Lyrics

Selected Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines





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